SciShow
What Happens to Your Body if You Drink Heavy Water?
What is heavy water, and is it safe to drink? Heavy water, or deuterium oxide, has some pretty important scientific applications. But what would happen to your body if you actually drank it? Hosted by Hank Green.
SciShow
How to Survive a Nuclear Attack
If you want to be prepared for a nuclear attack, here’s a science-based guide to help you get there.
Bozeman Science
Radiocarbon Dating
Mr. Andersen explains how carbon-14 dating can be used to date ancient material. The half-life of radioactive carbon into nitrogen is also discussed.
Curated Video
Beta particles
High-energy electrons emitted by nuclei during radioactive decay. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary Films reinforce...
Curated Video
Radioactivity
The emission of particles as a result of the spontaneous decay of atomic nuclei. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary...
Curated Video
GCSE Physics - Alpha, Beta and Gamma Radiation #33
This video covers: - The idea that radioactive materials contain unstable isotopes - What alpha, beta, gamma and neutron radiation is - How ionising and penetrating they are General info: - Suitable for all GCSE and IGCSE courses -...
Curated Video
Hazards of Radioactivity: Types of Ionizing Radiation and their Impact on Living Organisms
The video is a lecture on the hazards of radioactivity. It discusses the four main types of ionizing radiation (alpha particles, beta particles, gamma rays, and neutrons), how ionizing radiation can cause tissue damage in living...
Curated Video
Applications of Ionizing Radiation: Uses of Radioactivity for Our Benefit
The video discusses various applications of ionizing radiation in our daily life, including irradiation of food, sterilization of equipment, smoke alarms, thickness gauging, and medical applications like tracers, PET scanners, and cancer...
DoodleScience
Hazards of radiation _ GCSE Physics
Alpha and beta particles are charged, whereas gamma radiation is neutral. Remember that opposite charges attract, so if you were to fire all three particles through an electric or magnetic field the alpha particles would deflect towards...
Curated Video
Understanding the Hazards and Benefits of Nuclear Radiation in Medicine
In this video, the different forms of radioactive emissions are discussed, including alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma radiation. The potential uses of nuclear radiation in medicine and its potential hazards are also explored....
FuseSchool
Penetrating Properties of Radiation
Penetrating Properties of Radiation
Radioactivity. What is it? Should we be worried?
It was Marie Curie who first used the word radioactive to describe a phenomenon discovered by Becquerel in 1896. It would be Rutherford who would...